ba·ton /bəˈtɑn, bæ, ˈton ||ˈbætṇ/
 指揮棒,接力棒,警棍


 Bat·on n.
 1. A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
    He held the baton of command.   --Prescott.
 2. Her. An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.

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 baton
      n 1: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to direct an
           orchestra
      2: an implement passed from runner to runner in a relay race